Vicky Payne PhD

Dr. Vicky Payne qualified as a registered children’s nurse from King’s College University, London. Post-qualifying, she specialized in neonatal intensive care nursing. Having developed a passion for neonatal care and advancing nursing practice, she undertook Masters-level training to qualify as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She continued to develop her senior nursing role as an ANNP, taking a lead role on ward rounds and high-risk resuscitations. She also worked as part of the local retrieval service. She is an independent prescriber and has undertaken non-medical authorization of blood products training.

Her research interests are primarily centered on improving the quality and safety of neonatal care. In particular, she is interested in implementation and translating evidence into practice. Her thesis on the implementation of complex interventions to reduce neonatal central-line-associated bloodstream infections was a mixed-methods study looking at behavioral change, infection prevention, and organizational context, including the influence of staffing and organizational culture on safety behaviors.

She has presented her PhD work at several national and international conferences, including oral presentations at the European Association of Paediatric Societies conference (2016, 2020), the RCN International Nursing Conference (April 2017), and as a poster at the Neonatal Society meeting (June 2016). She was honored to be an invited speaker at the international 99NICU conference (2019) and Reason (2020).

She was proud to receive the "Best Paper by a Clinical Academic" award in 2019 at the Southampton and Health Research Conference. She has peer-reviewed several papers for publication in leading nursing and medical journals.